Basil And Dorian Quotes

#1. Mozart is the musical Christ.

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

#2. First of all it must be known who the God of heaven is, since upon that all the other things depend.

Emanuel Swedenborg

#3. Rewrite your tale of woe as a tale of wow

Karen Salmansohn

#4. I think the driving thing was curiosity about the universe. That fascinated me. I didn't think anything about being famous or anything like that, I was just interested in the concepts involved.

Clyde Tombaugh

#5. Each of us has heaven and hell in him, Basil, cried Dorian with a wild gesture of despair.

Oscar Wilde

#6. I have been right, Basil, haven't I, to take my love out of poetry, and to find my wife in Shakespeare's plays? Lips that Shakespeare taught to speak have whispered their secret in my ear. I have had the arms of Rosalind around me, and kissed Juliet on the mouth.

Oscar Wilde

#7. The question is never 'who am I?' It's 'who do I want to be?

Dianna Hardy

#8. You dislike Basil because, without his art, his life is horribly plain. Unlike Dorian who has made an art out of his life. Basil produces art; Dorian consumes it and lets it overwhelm him.

Abed Yaman

#9. Basil Hallward is what I think I am: Lord Henry what the world thinks me: Dorian what I would like to be - in other ages, perhaps.

Oscar Wilde